SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. (USTCNS) --- Air Mobility Command made the following general and senior officer announcements:
Brig. Gen. Vern M. Findley, II, commander, 437th Airlift Wing, Air Mobility Command, Charleston Air Force Base, S.C. becomes vice commander, Fifth Air Force, Pacific Air Forces, Yokota AB, Japan.
Col. Gregory A. Maul, currently Director of Operations, Fifteenth Air Force, Travis AFB, Calif., retires effective Nov. 1.
Col. Brooks L. Bash, deputy executive secretary, National Security Council, White House, Washington, becomes commander, 437th Airlift Wing, Charleston AFB, S.C., June.
Col. David G. Estep, deputy commander, 436th Operations Group, Dover AFB, Del., becomes Air Force Planner Joint and National Security Council Matters, HQ USAF, Pentagon, June.
Col. William R. Saunders, director of staff, 319th Air Refueling Wing, Grand Forks AFB, N.D., becomes inspector general, Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, Air Force Materiel Command, Robins AFB, Ga., June.
Col. Ronald S. Crooks, commander, 93nd Logistics Group, ACC, Robins AFB. Ga. becomes chief, Logistics Plans Division, Directorate of Logistics, HQ AMC, Scott AFB. Ill., July.
Col. Larry E. Eriksen, commander, 319th Logistics Group, Grand Forks AFB, N.D., becomes director, Special Operations Forces Systems Program Office, Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, AFMC, Robins AFB, Ga., July.
Col. Edward Connolly, commander, 60th Logistics Group, Travis AFB, Calif., becomes director, C-5 Maintenance Directorate, Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, Robins AFB. Ga., July.
Col. Carl A. Steel, commander, 305th Support Group, McGuire AFB, N.J., becomes director of personnel, HQ PACAF, Hickam AFB, Hawaii, July.
Col (select) Dave C. Howe, currently a student at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, NDU, Ft McNair, Washington, replaces Steel in July.
Col. Scott E. Streifert, commander, 60th Support Group, Travis AFB, Calif., becomes director, Central Command Air Forces A-7, Ninth Air Force, ACC, Prince Sultan AB, Saudi Arabia, effective July.
Col. (select) Leonard A. Patrick, student at the Air War College, Maxwell AFB, Ala., replaces Streifert in July.
Col. Charles P. Smiley, commander, 305th Civil Engineer Squadron, McGuire AFB, N.J., becomes Commander, 436th Support Group, Dover AFB, Del., June.
Col. Laurel A. Warish, commander, 38th Engineering Installation Group, AFMC, Tinker AFB, Okla., becomes chief, Programs Management Division, Directorate of Communications and Information, HQ AMC, Scott AFB, Ill.
Col. Robert J. King, commander, 437th Aerial Port Squadron, Charleston AFB, S.C., becomes deputy commander, 436th Support Group, Dover AFB, Del., June.
(FROM AIR MOBILITY COMMAND PUBLIC AFFAIRS)